199 Love Quotes

199 Love Quotes Collection -Collection of romantic love quotes from famous authors, & other romantic sources. These love quotes are simply for showing your love. Scroll down to see the romantic love quotes.

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ~ Helen Rowland

Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face. ~ National Lampoon

Every man loves two women; one is the creation of his imagination, and the other is not yet born. ~ Khalil Gibran

Even when I glimpse you for a moment, my tongue is stilled as speech deserts me, while a delicate fire is beneath my skin. ~ Sappho

Don't spend your life with someone you can live with - spend it with someone you can't live without. ~ Anon

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia

How can you tell the sun not to shine, when clouds exist. How can you ask leaves not to fall when wind exists. How can you tell me not to fall in love when you exist. ~ Unknown

He is not a lover who does not love forever. ~ Euripides

Happiness is being married to your best friend. ~ Anon

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be. ~ Robert Browning

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling love. ~ Albert Einstein

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend". ~ Anon

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love. ~ Hesiod

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. ~ Judy Garland

Don't frown. You never know who is falling in love with your smile. ~ Unknown

Don't compare our love to the flowers that only bloom on summer, instead, compare it to the river that flows forever. ~ Unknown

Do everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. ~ Yogi Desai

Destiny decides who you meet in life but its only your heart that can decide who gets to stay in your life. ~ Unknown

A ring is round, it turns forever and that's how long we'll be together! ~ Unknown

A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears. ~ Clarence Thomas

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. ~ Anonymous

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. ~ Ingrid Bergman

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark or an exclamation point. That's basic spelling that every woman ought to know. ~ Mistinguett

A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away. ~ Bil Keane

You're nothing short of my everything. ~ Ralph Block

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit. ~ William Shakespeare

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times. ~ Anonymous

Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything. ~ E E cummings

Be glad of life, because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars. ~ Unknown

Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. ~ Rose Franken

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the kingdom of heaven and the name of that river was suffering: and I saw a boat which carries souls across the river and the name of that boat was love. ~ Saint John of the Cross

All my soul follows you, love encircles you and I live in being yours. ~ Robert BrowningAll I need is my one star in the sky to wish for you everday. ~ Anon

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love. ~ Henry Drummond

You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry. ~ Unknown

You know it's love when you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. ~ UnknownYou know it's love when the tiny details about another person, ones that are insignificant to most people, seem fascinating and incredible to you. ~ Anon

You know it's love when forever is not long enough. ~ Unknown

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. ~ Jean Zheng

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~ Jonathan Carroll

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. ~ Anon

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~ Sam Keen

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ~ Wayne Dyer

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving. ~ Amy Carmichael

You are just like a Rose, a lesson of beauty, to whom a memory, but forever remembered ~ A. Neilen

I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. ~ Unknown

I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserved it. ~ Kyle Schmidt

I have never regretted falling in love with anyone. I have lived and learned from everyone I know, and loved. I would not change a thing. ~ Nancy Williams

I give you all my love because I truly love you, but I can't give you my soul and my heart because you'll just break it apart. ~ Unknown

I dropped a tear in the ocean. The day you find it is the day I will stop missing you. ~ Unknown

I don't wish to be everything to everyone rather i would like to be something to someone. ~ Unknown

I don't regret the things I have done or the things I have chosen not to do because what ever I've done, I must have done something right because I ended up with you. ~ Unknown

I don't need to be wanted, I want to be needed. ~ Unknown

I do not want to make reasons for you to stay, only reasons for you to return. ~ Jonivan

I desire nothing more than to be in your heart until forever dies. ~ Unknown

Words sound stupid -- look into my eyes ~ Anonymous

With every kiss, I feel closer to you. So close in fact, I shall kiss you again. ~ Unknown

Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great. ~ Unknown

Who, being loved, is poor? ~ Oscar Wilde

Where there is no love put love, and you will find love. ~ A. Sachs

When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I'm afraid to love you, now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you. ~ Unknown

Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine are the same. ~ Emily Bronte

What I need to live has been given to me by the earth. Why I need to live has been given to me by you. ~ Unknown

We've grown to be one soul - two parts; our lives so intertwined that when some passion stirs your heart, I feel the quake in mine. ~ Gloria Gaither

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way. ~ Marlin Finch Lupus

We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh. ~ Agnes Repplier

We cannot beg someone to stay if they want to leave and be with someone else. We have to admit that love doesn't give us the license to own a person. This is what love means...sacrifice. ~ Unknown

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. ~ Fredrich Halm

True love stories never have endings. ~ Unknown

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others. ~ Anne-Sophie Swetchine

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ~ Leo Buscaglia

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. ~ William M. Thackeray

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. ~ David Viscott

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. ~ Mark Twain

To be in Love is the best way to see the life at it's best! ~ Unknown

To be able to say how much love, is love but little. ~ Petrarch

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke

There's only one place in the world I call home, and it's because you're there. ~ Unknown

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving. ~ Aldous Huxley

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

There is no remedy for love but to love more. ~ Henry David Thoreau

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. ~ Unknown

The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. ~ G. K. Chesterton

The virtue of true love is not finding the perfect person, but loving the imperfect person perfectly. ~ Unknown

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. ~ Anais Nin

The less we look with our eyes, the more we will see with our hearts. ~ Lyndsey Albrecht

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

The heart is on the left but always right. ~ Unknown

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're still alive. ~ O.A. Battista

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ~ Unknown

That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth

Sometimes somebody says something really small and it just fits into this empty place in your heart. ~ Unknown

Sometimes it's hard to love someone because you're so afraid of losing them. ~ Jean Zheng

Sometimes I wonder if life is really worth it, then I look at your smile and I know it is. ~ Anon

Someone has stolen my heart and you are the highest on my list of suspects. ~ Unknown

Some joys are better expressed in silence as a smile holds more meaning than words. I was asked if i enjoy having you in my life..I just smiled! ~ Unknown

Shake hands and rancor will disappear. Give presents to each other and love each other and enmity will disappear. ~ Muhammad (PBUH)

Romance is like chess-one false move and you're mated. ~ Unknown

Perhaps LOVE is the process of me leading you gently back to yourself. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. ~ John Harrigan

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ~ Sophocles

One must learn to love and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul... ~ D. H. Lawrence

One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love. ~ Leo Buscaglia

One day you will ask me which is more important? my life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. ~ Khalil Gibran

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. ~ Charles M. SchulzNobody is perfect until you fall in love with them. ~ Unknown

Never underestimate the amazing power of love to change hearts and mindsets. Love can even give fresh inspiration to tackle what seems to be impossible. ~ Unknown

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command. ~ Alan Watts

Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely. ~ William Penn

More than kisses, letters mingle souls. ~ John Donne

Loving you is like breathing, how can I stop. ~ Unknown

Love leads to devotion and devotion is the key to success. ~ Anonymous

Love knows not its depth till the hour of separation. ~ Khalil Gibran

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh

Love is when you look into someone's eyes, and see everything you need. ~ Unknown

Love is when you give 60% and take 40%. ~ Unknown

Love is trembling happiness. ~ Khalil Gibran

Love is timeless, it is the memory of past, the happiness of today and the promise of tomorrow. ~ Unknown

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ~ H. L. Mencken

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. ~ Sam Shepard

Love is the fairest flower that blooms in God's Garden. ~ Anon

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear,too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice,but for those who love, time is eternity. ~ Henry Van Dyke

You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. ~ William WordsWorth

In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella

When I first met you I was afraid to like you, now that I like you I'm afraid to love you, now that I love you I'm afraid to lose you. ~ Unknown

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ~ Douglas Yates

I knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry. ~ Unknown

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese

Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all. ~ Toni Morrison

Love is not love until love's vulnerable. ~ Theodore Roethke

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds. ~ William Shakespeare

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding. ~ Bette Davis

Love is not blind -- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. ~ Rabbi J. Gordon

Love is not about who you live with.. its about who you can't live without. ~ Aesop

Love is more easily demonstrated than defined. ~ Anon

Love is like standing in wet cement , the longer you stay the harder to leave and u can never leave without leaving your marks behind. ~ Unknown

Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget the rules and play from your heart. ~ Unknown

Love is like a violin, the music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever. ~ Unknown

Love is like a tranquil breeze that sweeps over my soul making me whole. ~ Unknown

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours....And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. ~ Leo Buscaglia

Love is like a bus, if you miss it, don't worry, you'll catch another one. ~ Unknown

Love is hard work; and hard work sometimes hurts! ~ Unknown

Love is giving and sometimes giving means giving in. ~ William Oak

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ~ Alexander Smith

Love is being stupid together. ~ J. Paul Getty

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired. ~ Robert Frost

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. ~ Anon

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov

Love is a trick of the heart to fool the mind. ~ Unknown

Love is a science; It is all about passionate chemistry, dimensionless physics with a bit of biology thrown in. ~ Unknown

Love is a little haven of refuge from the world. ~ Bertrand Russell

Love is a flower and you its only seed. ~ Amanda McBroom

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ~ Franklin P. Jones

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love creates an 'us' without destroying a 'me'. ~ Leo Buscaglia

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. ~ Pierre Tielhard de Chardin

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ~ William Shakespeare

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~ Unknown

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ~ Oprah Winfrey

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ~ David Grayson

Living without you takes a lot of getting used to; you're a hard habit to break. ~ Unknown

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved. ~ Victor Hugo

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments: love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds. ~ William Shakespeare

Kiss: A contraction of the mouth due to an enlargement of the heart. ~ Anon

Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you. ~ Anon

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. ~ Oscar Wilde

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have. ~ Unknown

It is not that i'm afraid to die, it is that if i die who will love you as i do. ~ Unknown

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start. ~ Mother Teresa

It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all ~ Samuel Butler

Is that love i see in your eyes, or merely a reflection of mine? ~ Unknown

Is not this the true romantic feeling--not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you? ~ Thomas Wolfe

In this world of extremes, we can only love too little. ~ Rich Cannarella

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing. ~ Mignon McLaughlin

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist`s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. ~ Marc Chagall

In love there are two things : bodies and words. ~ Alan Watts

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you.' ~ Erich Fromm

If you truely love something, let it go, it'll come back if and when the time is right. ~ Katie Schrimsher

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I. ~ Michel de Montaigne

If you have it [Love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have. ~ Alice James

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. ~ Emmet Fox

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. ~ Oscar Wilde

If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. ~ Unknown

If The Only Possible Way We Can Be Together Is In My Dreams...Then I'll Sleep Forever. ~ Unknown

If love is great, and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the greatest. ~ Unknown

If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ~ Unknown

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. ~ Lynda Barry